A woman conned two unsuspecting teenage girls into having a sexual
relationship with her after she pretended to be a boy, a court heard.

Christine Wilson, 25, told one girl – who cannot be named for legal reasons – that she was a boy called Chris and was 17.

The girl, from Aberdeen, fell in love with "Chris" and believed she had lost her virginity to her in 2010, the High Court in Edinburgh heard. In fact, Wilson, who was 21 at the time, used a sex toy.

Police investigating Wilson discovered she had also conned another teenage girl, who was also 15 when they met in 2008, into a sexual relationship by posing as a man. The teenager only discovered the woman was lying about both her gender and her age after she saw a copy of the photo page of her passport.

Wilson, of Urquhart Road, Aberdeen, pleaded guilty to two charges of obtaining sexual intimacy by fraud.

The case echoes that of Gemma Barker,19, who was jailed for two-and-a-half years after turning herself into a series of different boys to launch sexual relationships with two schoolgirls, who were taken in by her scheme. Barker created three separate fictional identities on the internet before she went on to introduce herself to her victims, wearing baggy clothes and speaking with a deeper voice.

Prosecution lawyer Jane Farquharson told the court that Wilson had problems with her sexuality.

Ms Farquharson said: "The accused Christine Wilson has by her own admission experienced some confusion about her sexuality. She has since childhood presented as a boy.

"Both complainers believed they were in a relationship with a boy."

She said Wilson was introduced to her first victim by a mutual friend shortly before her 16th birthday in the summer of 2008.

"There was sexual contact. Initially, this contact is described as kissing and cuddling but things progressed over the course of the three months."

The court heard that whenever the girl wanted to sexually satisfy Wilson, she would stop her and say: "I'm a giver not a taker."

But the court heard that the girl started hearing rumours that her "boyfriend" was actually a woman.

Ms Farquharson added: "The complainer was aware of rumours circulating that the accused was female but did not believe this gossip, primarily because of their physical intimacy.

"In August 2008 however, the complainer was contacted by a girl from Stonehaven who advised her she had seen the accused's passport and confirmed the accused was female.

"A copy of the accused's passport was forwarded to her by email. When faced with the reality of her situation, the complainer cried and said she felt dirty.

"She recalls bathing and showering several times in the course of that day. "

When confronted by the victim, Wilson initially denied she was female. However, she later revealed the truth and told the girl she was seeing a counsellor and that she believed she should be a boy.

The second girl told Wilson that she was aged 16 – and the court heard that Wilson believed her.

Ms Farquharson told the court that Wilson used a vibrator to persuade her second victim that she was a boy.

Ms Farquharson added: "This was the complainer's first experience of what she thought had been sexual intercourse and both declared their love for each other. The complainer felt having had sex with the accused made their relationship stronger.

"The complainer had what she believed to be sexual intercourse on one further occasion. Again this intimacy was described to be under the covers they did not see each other naked."

The girl, described by her parents as "besotted" with Wilson, "struggled to come to terms" with the revelation and "found it difficult to believe", she said.

Shelagh McCall, for Wilson, told the court that her client has Gender Identity Disorder.